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a. Chris and Pat play the game shown below, without communicating with each other. Christ is...

a. Chris and Pat play the game shown below, without communicating with each other. Christ is playing across the rows and Pat is playing across the columns. The payoffs are given as: (x,y) = (payoff to Chris, payoff to Pat). Can you predict the outcome of the game? Explain.

New York San Francisco
New York
(3,2) (1,1)
San Francisco
(0,0) (2,3)

b. Chris and Pat play the game shown below, without communicating with each other. Christ is playing across the rows and Pat is playing across the columns. The payoffs are given as: (x,y) = (payoff to Chris, payoff to Pat). Can you predict the outcome of the game? Explain.

Buy Sell
Buy (+1,-1) (-1,+1)
Sell (-1,+1) (+1,-1)

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